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Example sentences for "yards from the enemy"

  • As we are now about 1,000 yards from the enemy's position the question will again arise as to whether covering fire is necessary.

  • No, it is not; it is at least 1,000 yards from the enemy's position.

  • There is another drawback as regards the bank: it is some 850 yards from the enemy's position and may be expected to be under an effective rifle fire.

  • The operation should begin about 1200 yards from the enemy's position.

  • Gore then gained a secure foothold near the colliery 1,700 yards from the enemy's right rear.

  • He and his men swept over the ridge in successive lines about 2,000 yards from the enemy, raced down the slope across the flat, partly obscured by a mound in front.

  • Andrew and his batman, which was only 25 yards from the enemy.

  • I walked out of the trench of the Quarries under the Redan, in which we had then established a heavy battery, at the distance of 400 yards from the enemy's embrasures.

  • Dominating both of these entrenchments, for most of their course, was a heavy battery of eight Lancaster and ten-inch naval guns, placed at a distance of 2500 yards from the enemy's lines.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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